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| Dragon Ball Kai | |||
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 "Dragon Ball Kai" Series Title | |||
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| Original Run |
05 April 2009 – 27 March 2011 06 April 2014 – 28 June 2015 | ||
| Broadcast | Fuji TV (Sunday, 9:00 – 9:30AM) | ||
| Animation | Toei Animation | ||
| Production |
Fuji TV Toei Animation | ||
| Episodes | 159 (List of Episodes) | ||
| Chapters | Chapter 195 to Chapter 519 | ||
| Main Staff | |||
| Series Director |
Yasuhiro Nowatari (1-98) Terazaki Naohiro (99–159) | ||
| Series Organizer |
Kazutaka Sado (1-98) Caramel Mama Kōhei Obara (66-98) | ||
| Planning |
Yōko Matsuzaki (1-98) Kōzō Morishita (1-159) Masato Seino (99-159) | ||
| Music |
Kenji Yamamoto (1-95) Shunsuke Kikuchi (96-98) Norihito Sumitomo (99-159) | ||
"Dragon Ball Kai" (often abbreviated as Kai), known internationally as "Dragon Ball Z Kai", is a Japanese animated television series produced by Toei Animation. The series is a "revised", re-edited version of the Dragon Ball Z TV series, produced for a high-definition (HD) presentation and features re-recorded dialogue, new music, updated sound effects, and new digital effects. The first 13 episodes feature a formal title card stating that Dragon Ball Kai is a "Commemorative Encore of the Broadcast's 20th Anniversary" and is an "Akira Toriyama Original Cut Version" of the series. The series' title, specifically "Kai", was provided by Akira Toriyama.[1]
Plot
Five peaceful years have passed since Goku's victory over Piccolo in the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai and his marriage to Chi-Chi, when a mysterious alien warrior arrives on Earth in search of "Kakarrot". The alien eventually finds Goku, identifying him as Kakarrot, and introduces himself as Goku's older brother, Raditz. He proclaims that Goku is actually a Saiyan, the strongest warrior race in the universe, that was sent to Earth to exterminate humanity. From here the series takes to the stars, with even stronger and stronger opponents appearing before Goku and friends.
History
Japan
In early 2009, Toei Animation officially announced[2] that a "refreshed" version of the Dragon Ball Z TV series, re-titled Dragon Ball Kai (改; Kai meaning "renewed" or "revised"), was being produced for a high-definition presentation in honor of its 20th anniversary. The first episode of Dragon Ball Kai aired on 05 April 2009 as part of Fuji TV's new hour-long Sunday morning anime block, "Dream 9". The block began with Dragon Ball Kai at 9:00AM and was followed by Toei Animation's other mega-hit anime series, One Piece, at 9:30AM. This marked the first time the franchise held a regular television time slot since Dragon Ball GT ended in November 1997.
During its original production, filler material was incorporated into the Dragon Ball Z TV series in order to stretch out story elements and avoid catching up with the concurrent weekly manga serialization. With no weekly serialization constraining Dragon Ball Kai, and the storyline already established, the series was able to cut out much of this material and move the story along with a faster tempo in an attempt to create a higher "sense of action"[2]. In addition, unlike the previous TV series, each episode's prologue and next episode preview could be produced in advance.
Saiyan to Cell Arc (Phase 1: 2009-2011)
The majority of the first phase of the Dragon Ball Kai series (episodes 1 to 98) is comprised of footage from Dragon Ball Z, which was digitally scanned and remastered by Q-TEC, a post-production company specializing in film video transferring and restoration. In addition, re-animated scenes drawn by the Philippines branch of Toei Animation were intermixed within the existing footage in order to reduce "extreme changes in brightness"[3], "replace cuts that had degraded over the years"[3], and to correct animation errors or inconsistencies from the original series. While the series was remastered in a 4:3 fullscreen format, it was subsequently broadcast in a cropped 16:9 widescreen format due to Japan's new broadcasting standards in an effort to transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. However, all of the high-definition Blu-ray releases featured this original fullscreen format, as opposed to the DVD releases, which featured the widescreen format used in the series' broadcast.
Although the series was consistently seeing high rating shares, it was ultimately canceled in March 2011 following the conclusion of the Cell story arc, presumably due to low merchandising sales[4][5], and replaced with the Toriko animated TV series. Shortly before the series' end, Toei Animation acknowledged issues of possible musical infringement in the series' background music and promptly removed Kenji Yamamoto's score, replacing it with Shunsuke Kikuchi's original score from Dragon Ball Z. The last two broadcast episodes (96 & 97) of the series exclusively featured Shunsuke Kikuchi's score, along with all subsequent re-airings and home video releases of the series.
Due to the horrific earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, the series' broadcast was delayed one week and consequently the final episode of the series was not aired as originally scheduled. It was later included as a special unaired episode on the series' home video release.
Majin Buu Arc (Phase 2: 2014-2015)
In November 2012, Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn) revealed[6] that production of Dragon Ball Kai was again underway, continuing on with the Majin Buu arc this time, although it was being produced exclusively for international distribution. Despite this, in February 2014, an announcement in V-Jump[7] unveiled that "a new era of Kai" would be returning to Fuji TV in Japan and reclaiming its original time slot. The second phase of the series premiered on 06 April 2014 and the Sunday morning block, reuniting Dragon Ball Kai and One Piece once again, was renamed "Strong 9".
Unlike the first phase of the series, the original Dragon Ball Z footage for the Majin Buu arc was digitally scanned and remastered by Toei internally.
Internationally
Characters
Main Staff
- Original Author: Akira Toriyama
- Planning
- Fuji TV: Yōko Matsuzaki (1-98), Masato Seino (99-159)
- Toei Animation: Kōzō Morishita
- Producer
- Fuji TV — Masato Seino (1-98), Osamu Nozaki (99-159)
- Yomiko Advertising — Kyotaro Kimura (1-14), Kazuya Watanabe (15-98), Naoko Sagawa (99-159)
- Toei Animation — Kōhei Obara (1-65), Gō Wakabayashi (66-98)
- SKY Perfect Well Think — Norihiro Hayashida (99-159)
- Music: Kenji Yamamoto (1-95), Shunsuke Kikuchi (96-98), Norihito Sumitomo (99-159)
- Production Supervisor: Atsunori Kazama
- Series Organization: Kazutaka Sado (1-98), Kōhei Obara (66-98), Caramel Mama
- Editing: Shin'ichi Fukumitsu (1-10), Nobutaka Maki (11-98), Kenta Katase (12-159)
- Editing Assistance: Kentarō Furushō (1-98), Kiminori Furuta (99-159)
- Audio Director: Yukio Nagasaki (1-159) & Satoshi Motoyama (99-159)
- Recording: Mitsuharu Itō
- Recording Assistance: Miki Arakaki
- Original Sound Effect Design: Hidenori Arai
- HD Production Coordination: Hidehiko Kadota
- Assistant Director: Yasunori Koyama (1-98)
- Performance Direction: Hiroshi Kamiho (99-159)
- Digital Mastering: Q-TEC (1-98), Toei Digital Lab (99-159)
- Digital Mastering Coordination: Nobuhiro Kobayashi (1-98), Shin'ichi Fukumitsu (99-159)
- Director: Yasuhiro Nowatari (1-98), Terazaki Naohiro (99-159)
- Production Coordination: Toei
- Production: Fuji TV, Yomiko Advertising?, Toei Animation
Themes & Insert Songs
Opening Theme
- "Dragon Soul" (Episodes 1-98)
- Lyrics: Yumi Yoshimoto / Composition: Takafumi Iwasaki / Arrangement: Sei'ichi Kyōda / Vocals: Takayoshi Tanimoto (Dragon Soul)
- "Kuu-Zen-Zetsu-Go: Like Nothing Before or After" (Episodes 99-159)
- Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori / Composition: Takafumi Iwasaki / Arrangement: Hiromasa Kagoshima / Vocals: Takayoshi Tanimoto (Dragon Soul)
Ending Theme
- "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!" (Episodes 1-54)
- Lyrics: Yuriko Mori / Composition: Takafumi Iwasaki / Arrangement: Sei'ichi Kyōda / Vocals: Takayoshi Tanimoto (Dragon Soul)
- "Wings of the Heart" (Episodes 55-98)
- Lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto / Composition: Kensuke Yoko / Arrangement: Magokoro Ikuta / Vocals: Team Dragon
- "Dear Zarathustra" (Episodes 99-111)
- Lyrics: Shingo Kanehiro / Composition: Shingo Kanehiro/ Arrangement & Vocals: Good Morning America
- "Pure Heart" (Episodes 112-123)
- Lyrics: Leo Ieiri / Composition: Yoshihiko Nishio / Arrangement: Kikuo Satō / Vocals: Leo Ieiri
- "Oh Yeah!!!!!!!" (Episodes 124-136)
- Lyrics: Masmi Takei / Composition: Masmi Takei / Arrangement & Vocals: Czecho No Republic
- "GALAXY" (Episodes 137-146)
- Lyrics: Seiya Yamasaki / Composition, Arrangement, & Vocals: Kyūso Nekokami
- "Don't Let Me Down" (Episodes 147-159)
- Lyrics & Composition: Tōru Hidaka / Arrangement: Naoki Oka / Vocals: Gacharic Spin
Insert Songs
- "Over the Star" (Episode 17)
- Lyrics: Yuriko Mori / Composition & Arrangement: cAnON. / Vocals: Saki Oshitani
- "Take the Stage!! Ginyu Special-Squad!!" (Episodes 28 & 29)
- Lyrics: Hiroshi Yamada / Composition, Arrangement, & Vocals: Yō Yamazaki
- "Only a Chilling Elegy: The Theme of Freeza" (Episodes 37 & 40)
- Lyrics & Composition: Demon Kakka / Arrangement: Anders Rydholm / Vocals: Demon Kakka
- "Saiyan Blood" (Episode 41)
- Lyrics: Hiroshi Yamada / Composition & Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto / Vocals: Vegeta (Ryō Horikawa)
- "Ultra☆Super Dragon Soul" (Episode 41)
- Lyrics: Yumi Yoshimoto / Composition: Takafumi Iwasaki / Arrangement: Hiromasa Kagoshima / Vocals: Takayoshi Tanimoto (Dragon Soul)
- "The Lone Warrior" (Episode 82)
- Lyrics: Hiroshi Yamada / Composition & Arrangement: Shin'ichi Sakurai / Vocals: Trunks (Takeshi Kusao)
- "My 18th Magic" (Episode 85)
- Lyrics, Composition, & Arrangement: cAnON. / Vocals: cAnON.
- "News of the Cell Games" (Episode 85)
- Lyrics: Hiroshi Yamada / Composition & Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto / Vocals: Kenji Ōtsuki
- "Cure: I'll Be Here" (Episode 98)
- Lyrics: Yuriko Mori / Composition & Arrangement: cAnON. / Vocals: Dende (Aya Hirano)
Episodes
Home Video Releases
References
- ↑ "Recent Work" (03 March 2009). Naotoshi Shida's Blog (Closed in 2012). Retrieved: 05 March 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Weekly Shōnen Jump 2009 #11. Japan: Shueisha, 09 February 2009. (p. 338)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Making of Dragon Ball Kai - Part 1". Dragon Ball Kai Blu-ray Box #1. Japan: Toei Animation, 23 October 2009. (Dragon Book; p. 11)
- ↑ "Fiscal 2010 Second Quarter Financial Results Presentation" (29 October 2009). Toei Animation Co., Ltd. Retrieved: March 2011.
- ↑ "Fiscal 2011 Second Quarter Financial Results Presentation" (28 October 2010). Toei Animation Co., Ltd. Retrieved: March 2011.
- ↑ "Dragon Ball Kai" (05 November 2012). Mayumi Tanaka's Blog. Retrieved: 06 November 2012.
- ↑ V-Jump: April 2014. Japan: Shueisha, 21 February 2014.
External Links
- Fuji TV's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2009)
- Fuji TV's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2014)
- Toei Animation's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2009)
- Toei Animation's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2014)
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